Paul Grech, found dead in Mellieħa last week and believed to have been stabbed in the heart, had bought a farm as big as Gozo in Russia and was setting up a potato business with a Russian man who is now being questioned by the police, his family said.
They added that a grey file containing contracts of the land purchases Mr Grech made in Russia, with his partner, were missing. He usually kept the file at home.
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